Biogen shares plunged Thursday after the biotechnology company said it is halting late-stage trials of an experimental Alzheimer's drug because results show the treatment is unlikely to help those with the brain disease. Investors fled the company's stock after the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company and Japan's Eisai announced they were pulling the plug on further … [Read more...] about Biogen shares plunge as Alzheimer’s drug trial disappoints

Rebecca Blackwell, Associated Press Updated 11:26 am PDT, Thursday, March 21, 2019 A mural of Nelson Mandela, who spent many of his imprisoned years in an island prison in South Africa, adorns a gate in front of the dock where prison staff and inmates arrive in Navy boats to the now closed Islas Maria penal colony located off Mexico's Pacific coast, at dawn … [Read more...] about Mexico’s last penal colony starts new life as nature center